RESTful Job Trends in the North West

RESTful
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring RESTful skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 118 119
Rank change year-on-year -26 +1 +65
Permanent jobs citing RESTful 55 73 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.68% 1.84% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.93% 9.52% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 44 63 135
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £52,500 £39,860
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,125 £69,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,522 £75,772
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -13.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

RESTful falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 616 767 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.64% 19.37% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 528 586 1,443
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -0.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%

RESTful
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RESTful relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

RESTful job vacancy trend in the North West

RESTful
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing RESTful.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing RESTful

RESTful
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing RESTful in the North West over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for RESTful in the North West

RESTful
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RESTful within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -21 42 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Lancashire -2 6 £51,065 -24.35% 15
Cheshire -26 6 £63,750 +50.00% 7
Merseyside -25 1 £55,000 -4.35% 3
RESTful
England

RESTful
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.64%) CICS
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) IIS
2 1 (1.82%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 25 (45.45%) AWS
3 16 (29.09%) GCP
4 13 (23.64%) Azure AKS
5 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub
6 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (5.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.82%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) Figma
7 1 (1.82%) Firebase
7 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (50.91%) NoSQL
2 14 (25.45%) MongoDB
3 13 (23.64%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (16.36%) MySQL
5 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
6 4 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.64%) DB2
8 2 (3.64%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.82%) Power BI
9 1 (1.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) JIRA
3 5 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.45%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.45%) IntelliJ
4 3 (5.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.64%) NUnit
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Games
3 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Advertising
4 2 (3.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Developer
2 22 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 19 (34.55%) Senior
4 11 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (18.18%) .NET Software Engineer
6 8 (14.55%) Java Developer
7 7 (12.73%) Senior Developer
7 7 (12.73%) Software Developer
8 6 (10.91%) .NET Developer
8 6 (10.91%) Lead
8 6 (10.91%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (9.09%) Python Engineer
9 5 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Java Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) .NET
2 20 (36.36%) React
3 19 (34.55%) CSS
3 19 (34.55%) HTML
4 12 (21.82%) .NET Framework
4 12 (21.82%) AngularJS
5 11 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 10 (18.18%) Vue
7 8 (14.55%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (14.55%) CSS3
7 8 (14.55%) HTML5
8 7 (12.73%) .NET Core
8 7 (12.73%) Spring
8 7 (12.73%) Spring Boot
9 6 (10.91%) Kafka
9 6 (10.91%) REST
10 5 (9.09%) Celery
10 5 (9.09%) Django
10 5 (9.09%) FastAPI
10 5 (9.09%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.82%) Lidar
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 40 (72.73%) Agile
3 35 (63.64%) DevOps
4 27 (49.09%) Software Engineering
5 24 (43.64%) Containerisation
6 23 (41.82%) Microservices
7 20 (36.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (36.36%) Scrum
8 14 (25.45%) AI
9 13 (23.64%) User Experience
10 12 (21.82%) Clean Code
10 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (21.82%) TDD
11 11 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
11 11 (20.00%) Software Architecture
12 10 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (18.18%) High Availability
13 8 (14.55%) Mentoring
13 8 (14.55%) Test Automation
14 7 (12.73%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) C#
2 22 (40.00%) Java
2 22 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.55%) Python
5 4 (7.27%) Go
5 4 (7.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.64%) PHP
7 1 (1.82%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) Rust
7 1 (1.82%) Swift
7 1 (1.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Rancher
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Google
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Pega
3 1 (1.82%) Adobe
3 1 (1.82%) DevExpress
3 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.82%) Veracode